A stainless-steel slide curls down through the interior of this elevated playhouse, which is topped by a crow's nest offering views over New York's Hudson River Valley (+ slideshow). More about Playhouse on stilts by Sharon Davis features a slide, a climbing frame and a lookout point
White curved walls merge into a tapered ceiling inside this yoga and meditation studio in New York, designed by Clouds Architecture Office to look like a fog has descended (+ slideshow). More about Curved walls confuse perception of space inside yoga studio by Clouds Architecture Office
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a range of wavy-edged ceramic vases that nestle together as a group (+ slideshow). More about Cloud vases by the Bouroullec brothers fit together in clusters
The lower level of this village doctor's surgery in Spain is sunken down below road level and partially embedded in a slope, allowing it to appear the same size as the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). More about Paüls Doctor Surgery by Vora is a two-storey structure that hides its base below road level
Architecture and landscape firm Snøhetta has been appointed to develop plans for a new public access route along Willamette Falls in Oregon, the second largest waterfall in the US (+ slideshow). More about Snøhetta team to design river walk next to America's second largest waterfall
This week we reported on Rem Koolhaas's statements about "sinister" technologies, a concept for Ikea's kitchen of the future and clip-on supports that can turn any flat surface into furniture (pictured). Click through for a roundup of the last seven days in architecture and design. More about This week on Dezeen
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a studio director at Oppenheim Architecture + Design in Miami, who teamed up with Huesler Architekten to create offices in an 18th century building in northern Switzerland (pictured).
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Architecture studio SHoP and interior design firm Studio O+A have unveiled plans for a glassy new mini-campus for the firm behind the controversial Uber taxi app (+ slideshow). More about SHoP Architects unveils designs for Uber's San Francisco headquarters
New York 2015: design student Maxime Loiseau has created a set of prototype headphones that transmit sound through printed electronics. More about Maxime Loiseau's streamlined headphones feature printed electronics
An exhibition at New York's Museum of Arts and Design celebrates the work of Ralph Pucci, whose mannequin designs chronicle changes in visual culture over more than 30 years (+ slideshow). More about Ralph Pucci's fashion mannequins "mirror how we want to see ourselves"
Slim batons of timber clad the facade of this medical clinic by Alt Arkkitehdit, which is set on the edge of a Finnish forest. More about Curving wooden wall fronts Ruukki Health Clinic in Finland by Alt Arkkitehdit
Israeli artist Daniel Rozin has designed an interactive "mirror" from faux-fur bunches that change colour to create moving silhouettes (+ movie). More about PomPom Mirror creates "reflections" with tufts of fur
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior curator at the V&A's new museum in Stratford, which will occupy a site in the London 2012 Olympic Park (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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London Festival of Architecture 2015: visitors to this London "sleeperie" can take a 10-minute nap in a colourful sling within a dimly-lit room, where soothing music is played and all technology is banned (+ slideshow). More about Hassell and Draisci Studio create "London's first sleeperie" to encourage daytime naps
This concrete pavilion built in the centre of a Polish quarry is a paleontological research centre that protects the remains of a small prehistoric reptile discovered in the 1980s (+ slideshow). More about Paleontology centre inside a quarry exhibits the bones of a prehistoric reptile
Geneva-based architect Aurélie Monet Kasisi has designed a mobile stand based on street-food carts to travel around Switzerland as a promotional vehicle for a suicide prevention organisation. More about Mobile suicide prevention station is based on street-food stands
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado has created contemporary galleries for a fine arts museum in northern Spain by inserting a crystalline glass building behind the leftover facade of a demolished block. More about Francisco Mangado expands a Spanish museum by adding a new building behind a historic facade
Belgian artists Studio Job have created a room "filled with frivolous expression" for the newly expanded Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ movie). More about Studio Job installs giant crystal-encrusted model at Swarovski theme park
Dezeen promotion: proposals are now being accepted for PeruDesignNet's Ideas Competition, with a chance to win a place at the international creative event in Lima commencing in September. More about Call for entries to PeruDesignNet's Ideas Competition
Opinion: Stalinist Russia turned its military parades into architecture, creating a peculiar form of pomp that still resonates in modern Moscow and emphasises the city's inequalities, finds Owen Hatherley. More about "This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city"